August 09, 2011

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Spokesman Ben LaBolt brushes off Romney's complaints and promises a campaign of contrasts, but also distances the campaign a bit from our story this morning:

Voters will have a choice in this election between two candidates, two records, and two visions for the country, one that will become clear after the Republican field has settled and they have chosen a nominee. Anyone purporting to hold a crystal ball for our strategy suggesting otherwise does not speak for the campaign. The crocodile tears from the Romney campaign, which has been nothing but negative, do not pass the credibility test.

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It's far too early for a story like this. Whoever wrote this just talked to a bunch of Obama campaign officials separately, then decided he would make his own storyline jumbling together quotes.
It makes for nice gossip news but it's bad journalism.

Pummeled by ghastly economic news and complete failure of Obamanomics, President Obama called Monday for more of the failed policies --- more spending and extended tax cuts that he said would help stimulate the economy — but these also could deepen the deficit problems that helped the federal government earn its first-ever debt downgrade last week. Everytime he opens his mouth, Wall street listens and sells off... failure by Obama you can believe in..

Posted By: Pummeled by ghastly economic news and complete failure of Obamanomics, President Obama called Monday | August 09, 2011 at 11:03 AM

I really hope the Romney campaign, or any of the GOP primary candidates don't get caught in this trap being laid by the Obama campaign, which is, to keep them side tracked and harping on the personal attacks and not staying focused on Obama's policy issues which are an epic failure.

Posted By: I really hope the Romney campaign, or any of the GOP primary candidates don't get caught in this tra | August 09, 2011 at 11:14 AM

Despite what that utter and complete moron Ben Labolt thinks this campaign can be summed up this way: "Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?"....And, most Americans will reply "NO" when they toss that abject failure and incompetent administrator Barack Obama out of office...

Tea Party Hostage-Taking Backfires: Government Borrowing Costs Down, Democrats Poised to Recapture the House

Well, this ought go be a big fat middle finger in the face of the anti-government Teabaggers who were celebrating Standard and Poor's downgrade of the United States. I am not sure the agency had this in mind when they downgraded the credit-worthiness of the United States - that is, the value of US Treasury bonds. But in the middle of the stock market jumping off a Tea Party cliff today, the much less-attended to news is this: upon hearing the news that the US government bonds were downgraded, investors opted to sell their private stocks and move to... yup, government bonds! NPR's Jacob Goldstein noted the irony:
{Stocks were down this morning, and the interest rate on Treasury bonds fell.
In other words, bond investors' first reaction after SP's downgrade of U.S. government debt was to be even more eager to lend money to the U.S. government.}
Sure enough, Bloomberg confirms...
http://www.thepeoplesview.net/2011/08/tea-party-hostage-taking-backfires.html

Negative campaigning is a hallmark of modern conservatism. Slash and burn politics – Rovian politics – has served conservatives well over the years. I’m not at all surprised to see Obama adopt this conservative strategy as well. ----- It’s just one more in a long line of conservative policies and conservative tactics that he’s adopted since 2010. Like tax cuts (Bush Obama Tax Cuts), and gutting government spending (The largest cuts in America history).

Look, this is what I and other observant members of the GOP have been warning about all along: Obama will be able to Dukakis/Kerry Mitt Romney, as inauthentic and unprincipled as he is. There's no need for the GOP to back a phoney.

Moron @12:13pm.....Yeah because no one could make the extremely creepy looking Rick Perry the pharisee out to be a weirdo....I mean not until Rick takes his public prayer-a-thon national that is....Do you idiots even listen to yourselves?

why don,t you blame this on the real ones instead of blaming Obama the tea party and GOP said they would do anything to destroy him time you stop watching fox news and grow up oh by the way he got stuck with bush debt .

What idiot wrote this phony story. The President's team never gives away their hand. This is Romney looking for attention because Perry is getting in the race. Romney is no threat to them., Wake up people this story is planted by Romney or Huntsman's camp. They are not that foolish to get wrapped up in a BS scenario. Romney's record speak for it self.

other than abject failure i can't see anything credible about this administration. so i guess we'll have two negatives going at each other. but that's only if mitt gets the nomination which i doubt he will.

I am one who is better off now than when Bush was president. Obama will win regardless of how loud the whining is from the Koch Brothers funded Tea Party. Mitt is a joke and so are all the other GOP candidates. Especially that whack job Bachmann! So cry all you want idiot GOP'ers. You already destroyed this country once and it's taking a long time to get back to a good level.

What a load of excrement. This story is nothing more than just that... a story. First off the primaries have not even been held yet so if it is down to two candidates it is all in your head. Mitt Romney doesn't have a chance to win the primary despite what the "pew weeee" poles say. Romney care is just as bad as Obama care and neither are wanted by conservative America.
And the post by the clown who said "tea baggers" celebrated when the S&P downgraded is a clueless at best. As a Tea Party member, we WARNED about the debt vs. GDP ratio and that WE also believe that government won't be able to fix it because there will be too much infighting.
It is YOU liberals fault because it is you who believe that MORE government is what you need and not less. More government costs you more... and that means you have less. They can't make the money out of thin air.. they have to borrow it from the Fed and then pay it back with interest.. and just like all spending junkies, they can't keep spending beyond their revenue take in without driving up the debt. Welcome to economics 101! But somehow you guys think they can spend and just JACK up taxes to even the wealthy and that there are no repercussions. The upper 10% already pay the vaste majority of all the taxes in the country.. but you aren't content with driving those "evil rich people" into middle class through wealth redistribution.. but maybe they will take their wealth and businesses overseas and just tell you liberals to take a hike.

@Chip Casey, ....Why don't you do us all a favor and learn how to read you freaking idiot!...Or try reading the story before you spout your bs and nonsense...Obama's campaign leaked this story you idiot!....See no one is worried about the other Republican candidates because everyone with even half a brain, (which includes you Chip, since you have proven you have no brain), knows that the other Republican candidates have almost zero chance of defeating Romney in the primaries despite your bluster and false confidence to the contrary...

Politico WRiters write the FALSE headlines saying obama going to Destroy Romney ! President Obama NEVER said that! No one from the Obama campaign ever said that! This is all POLITICO , trying to get readers to pay attention to their lame fabricated articles!

I am better off now than I was when Bush was in office. I'm making more money. I bought a home with the tax credit the Dems passed 2 years ago. The payroll tax cuts helped me pay off some debts. Life is good. I'm sorry that the GOP has to blame Obama for their own pathetic and pitiful lives.

“Unless things change and Obama can run on accomplishments, he will have to kill Romney,” said a prominent Democratic strategist aligned with the White House.
Sounds like the Obama campaign is inciting violence, searching for their own version of Jared Loughner, the Gabrielle Giffords shooter. Will the Secret Service investigate this as a threat against a presidential candidate?

Almost impossible NOT to conduct a negative campaign vs Barack Hussein......if you even casually mention his record as pres.. the automatic response HAS to be negative. After all, everthing BHO has touched has turned to crap.....but of course he is blameless.

RE:why don,t you blame this on the real ones instead of blaming Obama the tea party and GOP said they would do anything to destroy him time you stop watching fox news and grow up oh by the way he got stuck with bush debt .Posted By: Julie | August 09, 2011 at 12:52 PM-------------------Someone’s listening to Jon Stewart as their main source of News! Julie, First George W. came back from Texas and was responsible for adding 4 trillion to the deficit, then, it was the tea Party? The tea party ran on the notion that they would stop the reckless spending, they kept their promise. If raising taxes was the answer, then why is California, New York Bankrupt? These are the highest taxed states in the Union! Both States have extreme reckless spending (Just like our federal Government)-These are facts......The national debt is 14.3 trillion dollars. When Obama took office, the U.S. national debt was 10.6 trillion dollars-(ALL BARRY"S)The number of children living in poverty has gone up by about 2 million in just the past 2 years-The federal government has borrowed 29,660 more dollars per household since Obama signed the economic stimulus law 2 years ago-During Obama's first 2 years in office, the U.S. government added more to the U.S. national debt than the first 100 U.S. Congresses combined-Only 66.8% of American men had a job last year. This isn’t Change! This is a disaster! What do you need to happen before you admit you voted for a failure? Stop the Ideologue creepy worshipping and at least put another candidate up,

I was under the impression the personal attacks and vitriolic rhetoric was a thing of the past after the Giffords' shooting.
Personally, I don't care about the personal character of the President. I'm not voting for who I think would be my best friend. I'm voting for who I think can lead the nation in a way that puts me in the best position to prosper under my own work. I want both candidates to simply lay out their vision, why they think their vision will lead to prosperity, how they think we should get their, and what, from their record, indicates they are capable of implementing that vision and what, from their record (and history) demonstrates that their vision will lead to prosperity. That's it. I don't want the messages clouded by name calling -- Dems calling people Teabaggers, Reps calling Obama and his constituents lazy, Dems blaming Bush for every bad thing that happens, Reps blaming Obama. I don't want to hear someone called "stupid" because, when they were 18 they didn't do well in some math class and I don't want to hear someone touted as smart because at 20, they wrote a great paper on some arcane piece of history. I just want to know who can lead and where they will take us.

Romney is a baby. Is the media saying that oabam has failed on a regular. Please. How can this president get anything passed due the hypocrate republicans going even against the things they voted for in the past but just be against it because know Obama is for it. Yea he could have had a little more spine against these fools in congress but look at the republicans disapproval ratings 59% Obama approval rating 46%.

Posted By: eman | August 09, 2011 at 05:39 PM------------------Barry had complete control over the houses and the senate, How is it the republicans fault that his party couldn’t pass a budget or raise the debt ceiling during this time?

Posted By: Posted By: eman | August 09, 2011 at 05:39 PM------------------Barry had complete control over the h | August 09, 2011 at 06:49 PM

The only person actually quoted in this weak exercise in "journalism" was Axelrod, who didn't use any loaded words like destroy, or weird, while correctly recalling Romney's history at Bain capital, makin money and firing people. It's funny to watch you guys get all worked up over zilch.

Obam'as "Hope and Change" turned out to be a negative experience for this country.
The next hope and change I am looking forward to will be seeing the Obama's final departure from the White House, after the 2012 election.

Posted By: Obam'as "Hope and Change" turned out to be a negative experience for this country.
The next hope | August 10, 2011 at 12:28 AM